THE farmer’s manual. 169 
M. Le Abbe Bienaime recommends oat-meal in the 
dysentery. 
Mr. Huish approves of all these remedies, and 
adds, great care should be taken to keep the hives as 
clean as possible during the prevalence of the dysen- 
tery amongst your Bees. 
Mr. Huish observes that the antennae of the Bee 
are sometimes diseased, and turn yellow, attended 
with some swelling ; but considers the disease as 
slight. He also notices that Bees sometimes have 
the vertigo, for which no remedy had been discover- 
ed ; but this was never general in hives, and not very 
serious in its consequences in the sivarms. 
The abortive brood, gilthough not an epidemical 
disorder, is still very injurious in its effects upon the 
Bees. Two causes produce this effect; I. When 
the Bees have given the larva improper food ; 2. 
When the worm is placed in the cell with the tail to- 
wards its mouth. In thjscase, the young Bees, inca- 
pable of estrication, die and putrify. The Bees ge- 
nerally remedy the evils of this putrefaction, by re- 
moving the abortive brood; but should this accident 
take place in winter, the infected combs may be cut 
out when the hives are examined in the spring. The 
tops ol the cells, when sound, are convex and yellow- 
i.sh ; when abortive, concave and blacki.sh. 
CHAP. IX. 
On the Brood. 
Having described the origin of the Bees, the na- 
tural constitution of the queen, and of the drones, J 
now proceed to tieat of their brood. By the brood, 
we understand the three different states of the eggs, 
worm and nymph, and it is on these states, that the 
prosperity, the conservation, and multiplication of the 
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